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[unclemac]

Had to walk a couple miles to get to this spot and plenty to find along the way. Nice Russian blue bead and a few good artifacts too. The agates and other stuff was a nice bonus. The pink one was buried with just a touch of color showing, but 60+ years of instinct kicked in and I got lucky!

 

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[Older The Better]

Nice, got a little of everything, coins, bullets, points, beads… is the red point really thin? I like the pink/white one too

 

[MAMucker]

I have a large glass top, shadow box type coffee table with a bed of harbor beach sand and an eclectic assortment of finds from the shore.
Sea glass, points, shell and whatnot. A lot like your collection. The little folk play in it, so I don’t store anything vulnerable or valuable in there.
I think I see a paint pot?

 

[ToddsPoint]

If I found that pink and white blade here in IL I’d say it’s Kaolin flint, no doubt about it. Here’s a near identical piece I chipped. I suppose there is a one in a million chance your piece is IL Kaolin but I doubt it. Just another lookalike material. Microscopic analysis would be only way to know for sure.

 

[unclemac]

Nice, got a little of everything, coins, bullets, points, beads… is the red point really thin? I like the pink/white one too

yes it is thin, seems to be a common point for this site...which is interesting to me. I find a wide range of points where I hunt, but certain styles tend to be concentrated in certain specific areas. There were primarily three tribes (unrelated language families too) living fairly peacefully here in year-round settled villages. The food resources were reliable and abundant (still are) and the technology was of course basically the same. But stylistically, certain forms were perhaps very "local". I wonder if folks could find something (a point) and think, "this came from XYZ village, or even, "uncle joe made this one". And for sure they were finding points, or ignoring them, all the time. The points were so common to find (still are in some areas) 60 years ago that you couldn't take a walk without finding one. Add to that that 60 years ago there were ALREADY large collections from folks collecting the PREVIOUS 60 or so years. I wonder if discarded points were just considered like trash on the side of the road and ignored.

 

[unclemac]

I have a large glass top, shadow box type coffee table with a bed of harbor beach sand and an eclectic assortment of finds from the shore.
Sea glass, points, shell and whatnot. A lot like your collection. The little folk play in it, so I don’t store anything vulnerable or valuable in there.
I think I see a paint pot?

no, not a paint pot but rather a clay inclusion of a sand shrimp burrow section. These are all over and date to 80,000 years plus. Sometimes I get lucky and find agatized ones, (clam shells too), those go back 20-30 million years. Yeah, I love taking my walks there. I have (I just counted on my flash drive), 128 pictures like that one in a file I call "day's haul". I find a lot of bullets, even musket balls, beads, marbles, agates, fossils, bottles, petrified wood, coins, (seated liberty too), buttons, glass stoppers, artifacts, bottle necks, beach glass, broken ceramics and a ell of a lot of golf balls. And I am not alone hunting these stretches, they are locally well known and because they were plated before 1889, they are privately owned.

 

[unclemac]

If I found that pink and white blade here in IL I’d say it’s Kaolin flint, no doubt about it. Here’s a near identical piece I chipped. I suppose there is a one in a million chance your piece is IL Kaolin but I doubt it. Just another lookalike material. Microscopic analysis would be only way to know for sure.View attachment 2091903

now that is something. This is the only point I have found of this material, or even seen raw as a cobble. What I find are primarily, jasper, (red, yellow, brown), agate, obsidian, pet-wood, pretty much all local colors of some sort of siliceous stone... fist size cobbles all over to this day. However, my local archie friend here, has tested artifacts whose source stone come from over 1,200 miles away. So, who is to say?

 

[southfork]

Nice day on the river or beach?

 

[unclemac]

Nice day on the river or beach?

both really, a tidal stretch of beach along a river.

 

[CreekSide]

Looks like a awesome day to me

 

[scruggs]

You did great! Good assortment of finds!